14 DAY TRIAL // Back in early September, before Microsoft officially unveiled the new Windows 10 Preview, we received a tip from our sources that some new features designed for the revamped operating system would be locked in the testing bits.
Microsoft didn’t talk too much about what would be locked in Windows 10 Preview on September 30, but in addition to Cortana, whose files are already implemented in the operating system, there are also a number of other features which are there, but not yet available.
One of them is the notification center, which was rumored to be introduced in the next Windows version as one of the things borrowed from Windows Phone.
As you have most likely noticed if you have already installed Windows 10 Preview on your computer, the notification center is not available, but it turns out that a simple trick allows you to try it out.
The notification center is there, but still locked right now
@adeyblue of airesoft.co.uk found a workaround to make the notification center show up in Windows 10 Preview and developed an executable file that allows you to see the way it currently looks.
The only thing you need to do is download this file (available as a ZIP archive), extract all files and launch the executable from the right folder, depending on your Windows 10 Preview OS version.
Once you launch it, the notification center should be launched from the bottom right corner, but no features are available for the time being, so there’s not much to do right now.
Borrowed from Windows Phone
The notification center will provide almost the same options as the one on Windows Phone did, so in addition to a very simple design, this feature will come with pretty basic options that would allow users to stay up to date with what’s happening on their PCs.
Some Windows 10 preview builds included a working notification center which revealed features to quickly manage Skype messages, toast notifications, and other warnings provided by apps.
Microsoft is reportedly working to improve the capabilities of the notification center with options that would allow users to reply to a Skype message without actually launching the app, but also with other settings that would provide a faster way to interact with program issue notifications.
At this point, the notification center is still in its very early development stages, so a lot of features could change until the full version of Windows 10 comes out. According to sources, this could happen in spring 2015.